From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64179C433EF for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 08:11:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S242483AbiCWINV (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:13:21 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52766 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S242452AbiCWINK (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Mar 2022 04:13:10 -0400 Received: from esa8.hc1455-7.c3s2.iphmx.com (esa8.hc1455-7.c3s2.iphmx.com [139.138.61.253]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ADFF274B3E; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 01:11:40 -0700 (PDT) X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10294"; a="55126041" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,203,1643641200"; d="scan'208";a="55126041" Received: from unknown (HELO oym-r3.gw.nic.fujitsu.com) ([210.162.30.91]) by esa8.hc1455-7.c3s2.iphmx.com with ESMTP; 23 Mar 2022 17:11:37 +0900 Received: from oym-m3.gw.nic.fujitsu.com (oym-nat-oym-m3.gw.nic.fujitsu.com [192.168.87.60]) by oym-r3.gw.nic.fujitsu.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 567F9CA242; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:11:37 +0900 (JST) Received: from yto-om1.fujitsu.com (yto-om1.o.css.fujitsu.com [10.128.89.162]) by oym-m3.gw.nic.fujitsu.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AFAE10FC; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:11:36 +0900 (JST) Received: from cn-r05-10.example.com (n3235113.np.ts.nmh.cs.fujitsu.co.jp [10.123.235.113]) by yto-om1.fujitsu.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51270404AFD0D; Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:11:36 +0900 (JST) From: Shaopeng Tan To: Fenghua Yu , Reinette Chatre , Shuah Khan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com Subject: [PATCH v5 2/2] selftests/resctrl: Print a message if the result of MBM&CMT tests is failed on Intel CPU Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 17:09:28 +0900 Message-Id: <20220323080928.1586408-3-tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.27.0 In-Reply-To: <20220323080928.1586408-1-tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com> References: <20220323080928.1586408-1-tan.shaopeng@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org According to "Intel Resource Director Technology (Intel RDT) on 2nd Generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors Reference Manual", When the Intel Sub-NUMA Clustering(SNC) feature is enabled, Intel CMT and MBM counters may not be accurate. However, there does not seem to be an architectural way to detect if SNC is enabled. If the result of MBM&CMT test fails on Intel CPU, print a message to let users know a possible cause of failure. Acked-by: Reinette Chatre Signed-off-by: Shaopeng Tan --- tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c index 3e7cdf1125df..f8da3ecf67ef 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/resctrl/resctrl_tests.c @@ -86,6 +86,8 @@ static void run_mbm_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int span, sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", MBA_STR); res = mbm_bw_change(span, cpu_no, bw_report, benchmark_cmd); ksft_test_result(!res, "MBM: bw change\n"); + if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res) + ksft_print_msg("Intel MBM may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n"); mbm_test_cleanup(); } @@ -122,6 +124,8 @@ static void run_cmt_test(bool has_ben, char **benchmark_cmd, int cpu_no) sprintf(benchmark_cmd[5], "%s", CMT_STR); res = cmt_resctrl_val(cpu_no, 5, benchmark_cmd); ksft_test_result(!res, "CMT: test\n"); + if ((get_vendor() == ARCH_INTEL) && res) + ksft_print_msg("Intel CMT may be inaccurate when Sub-NUMA Clustering is enabled. Check BIOS configuration.\n"); cmt_test_cleanup(); } -- 2.27.0